What does the job involve?
I oversee the daily logistics of a production, working with the line producer to manage the budget and schedule. My role involves hiring equipment, crew, catering and facilities, as well as sourcing production offices and coordinating across all departments. Essentially, I keep the day-to-day machine running.
When are you brought on board?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: frantically juggling work dos with gift shopping and carol concerts. Add to that list the small matter of avenging the murder of your secret lover, and things get wild very fast.
This is where we find Keira Knightley’s Helen in the opening episode of Netflix’s six-part spy thriller Black Doves. Married to Wallace (Andrew Buchan), the British defence minister who’s tipped for No 10, she’s the picture of domestic bliss as a dedicated wife and mother to two young twins.
Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Helen Webb – devoted mother, wife, and spy. For years Webb has been leaking her politician husband’s government secrets to her spy organisation, The Black Doves. When Webb’s lover Jason is suspiciously murdered, she turns to an old friend, Sam Young (Whishaw) – an assassin whose dark past is swiftly catching up with him.
Set against a backdrop of London in full Christmas swing, the two begin solving the murder, uncovering a web of conspiracies in the process that all lead towards an impending geopolitical crisis.
